Comment: Re: Remember (Score 1) 316
Sounds like someone has ADD... you want to go ride bikes?
Comment: Re:Here's the letter DEFCAD got from the DoS... (Score 1) 496
In a weird twist of fate, this particular comment is being cited on ArsTechnica.com.
Comment: Re:Capital versus Operating Expense (Score 1) 658
The software is no longer an amortizable asset, but instead gets counted as overhead
Both are still a fixed cost that are used to calculate your markup. Either way you will be able to deduct the cost against your taxes; now you'll avoid the up-front expense and having to do deductions over it's useful life.
Comment: Do you know what this Means? (Score 5, Funny) 58
Looks like the Iomega brand has experienced the click of death.
Comment: Re:Do what they do to hourly workers. (Score 1) 381
You presume that most companies give a crap about the law. Instead lawyers are hired and loopholes are discovered. You just quoted "...authorized by the employee in writing...". I guarantee that this provision is included within the employee handbook and a signature from the employee to agree to such provisions is almost always a condition of employment.
Hobby Lobby requires you to sign a binding arbitration clause, for employment, before they will even accept your application.
Comment: Re:XBL? (Score 1) 138
XBL stands for XML Binding Language http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XBL XBRL stands for Extensible Business Reporting Language http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XBRL http://www.xbrl.org/
Ffffffuuuuuuuu....
Comment: XBL? (Score 0) 138
XBL stands for eXtended Business Language and is designed for the financial accounting of a company. Corporations must transmit their data in XBL to the SEC for quick analysis. I guess it can be used on the web, but it's much more of an internal language.
Comment: Re:Innovation (Score 4, Funny) 257
i don't need the phone to
Speak for yourself
Comment: Re:The only ones who win are the lawyers. (Score 3, Funny) 132
So it is not always the lawyers who win. Sometimes it is the hit-men.
What is the difference?
Comment: Re:First No! (Score 5, Insightful) 299
Seriously, fuck Disney! I remember the LucasArts games back in their heyday
The article at Wired.com sums it up best: "The LucasArts that died today is not the one you loved, and it was never going to be again."
Comment: Re:Police, Fire Brigade, Truncheon, Axe... (Score 3, Funny) 115
You've obviously never tried to trace a fraudulent transaction though multiple jurisdictions
It's simple really, just write a program in VB so you can backtrace it.
Comment: The Cost of the Liquid? (Score 5, Funny) 68
For an ionic liquid there should be no charge.
Comment: Re:Everything gave us civilization (Score 4, Interesting) 325
Vessels that had been used for making beer are identified by beer specific chemical traces on the inside of conatiners. Soot residue is a terrible indicator; and no, you do not need to place a container on the fire to boil water. You can boil water in water-tight weaved baskets by placing rocks that have come off of the fire. They hold a lot of heat and with multiple rocks you can boil for as long as you need.
Comment: Re:Ah tax season (Score 1) 526
Then when they used it to buy more candy bars it was taxed again...
Usually, products that are purchased for resale are exempt from sales tax. Sales taxes are not calculated until it is sold to the end user.
Candy purchased by a mini-mart at Costco -> no sales tax
Me buying the candy bar from that mini-mart -> sales tax calculated
Comment: Re:Ah tax season (Score 1) 526
A business can deduct any expense that is used for the operations of running a business. Dividends are payed after taxes because paying dividends is not essential to the running of a business. Anyways, dividends are not payed out to shares held by the company.